In contrast, Republican outsider Sharron Angle has driven Washington wild with anger by running TV spots pointing out Reid’s pandering to illegal aliens. Of course, it’s unwise to count out Washington’s ultimate insider, but Angle seems currently to be ahead by 2 to 4 points and Politico has just reported (October 8) Sharron Angle surge unnerving Nevada Democrats —perhaps because, crazy as it may sound, it’s actually a smarter political strategy to appeal to voters than to nonvoters. Ask Cruz Bustamante, wherever he is now.
This doesn’t mean that the MSM’s long campaign to elicit Hispanic racial anger will never pay off. In Latin America, talented demagogues such as Hugo Chavez of Venezuela do periodically appear.
And, needless to say, it’s not clear that the MSM actually would like what it has tried so hard to conjure up. Judging from the hilarious Rick Sanchez imbroglio, in which the blowhard CNN anchorman from Cuba was instantly fired after scoffing at the suggestion that Jews are an oppressed minority “as much as you are”, press elites haven’t fully thought through this whole Hispanic victimism ideology.
My conclusion: After a Bush-blighted decade, it’s time for Republican candidates to address Hispanic voters directly over illegal immigration.
